In a post on their website, details about the seventh installment of Dreamleague! The website outlines their plans for the upcoming season including the same prize money model as last season (teams earn money for winning maps with a grand prize at the end of a season), but the biggest reveal was the expansion into North America!

DreamLeague will be running two separate divisions for Season 7, a North American group and a European Group. While the number of teams for NA will be smaller, it will undoubtedly provide viewers with the same level of excitement that one can expect from a DreamLeague production. A full list of teams will be announced Friday afternoon.

We also have information about the playoffs which will be held on July 21st and 22nd at DreamHack Atlanta 2017. Since the playoffs are incredibly close to TI (which usually starts at the beginning of August), DreamHack has offered to provide a bootcamp location for teams competing in both the finals of DreamLeague and The International to make sure that there are no potential conflicts in scheduling.

Considering how TI is probably Aug 7-12 with groups starting sometime the week before (say august 1st), this is still cutting it real close. I can definitely see teams not wanting to fly to and from atlanta and/or show strats 10 days before TI.

On March 16 2017 06:20 Sn0_Man wrote:Considering how TI is probably Aug 7-12 with groups starting sometime the week before (say august 1st), this is still cutting it real close. I can definitely see teams not wanting to fly to and from atlanta and/or show strats 10 days before TI.

Excited about the tournament coming to NA though.

The free bootcamp and practice against the teams in the tournament that will be tier 2 with maybe a bit of tier 1 would be attractive to the poorer organisations that expect to get to TI. Especially if they had a SA or SEA division it would have been highly attractive. NA teams can likely arrange something themselves since it is their home turf and most EU teams have decent budgets for stuff like this (though would be thankful to offload it one somebody else).

Teams like EG will likely not want to participate unless they have changed mentality regarding travelling etc. Will be interesting to see if we are wrong and likely TI top contenders sign up.

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